Car wheeling device



April 5 c. s. PERRY EI'AL 2,505,003

CAR WHEELING DEVICE Filed Nov. 15, 1945 3 Sheets-Sheet l I I I U II a4 I 5. 3 i V I l5 l0 q L 1 l INVENTOR.

CHARLES S. PERRY HOWARD M. MO'MILLAN LUTHER C. HERRING'JOHN F. BAUKNIGHT A'ITD RNEYB April 25, 1950 c. s. PERRY ETAL CAR WHEELING DEVI CE s Sheets-Sheet 2 Fiied Nov. 15, 1945 INVENTOR. CHARLES S. PERRY HOWARD M. MG-MILLAN LUTHER G. HERRING-' JOHN F. BAUKNIGHT ATI'CI RN EYE April 25, 1950 c. s. PERRY ETAL CAR WHEELING DEVICE 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed NOV. 15, 1945 INVENTOR.

CHARLES S. PERRY HOWARD M. MG'MILLAN LUTHER C. HERRING' JOHN F. BAUKNIGHT ATTD RN EYE! Patented Apr. 25, 1950 UNITED srer ES PATENT OFFICE v CAR wnEELING DEVICE, I Charles S. Perry, Howard M. McMillan, Luther 1 (Idler-ring, and ohn F. Bauknight, Atlanta, Ga.

;' assessm nts 15,1945, Serial No. 628,686

The invention relates to a ear truck and'wheel I assembling apparatus, and more especially in railway truck wheeling device.

' of a device bfthis character, wherein the bolster can be raised with respect to a railway car truck for the locating of the springs therebetween and the wheeling of such truck with the use of minimum labor and with dispatch, the device being uniq'ue' injits assembly and the working thereof.

A further: object of th invention is the provision'of a device of this" character which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and eflicient in operation, strong, durable, portableforlocating the same in a working position, conveniently operated, assuring safety in the use thereof. readily and easily adjusted, and inexpensiv to manufacture and install.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in th accompanying drawings, which disclose the preferred embodiment of the invention, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the device constructed in accordance with the invention in relation to a railway car truck when wheeled and assembled.

Figure 2 is a side view thereof, and positioned at right angles to that shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side view of a side frame of the railway car truck with the bolster of the latter in position for the lifting thereof by the device.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing a wheeled axle, side frames and bolster of a railway car truck in position for assembly of the latter by the device.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 5-5 (approximately) of Figure 4 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary enlarged side view of one of the side frame lifters of the devicev 1 cl i (cram-13) Figure '7 is a fragmentary end view of the structure shown in Figure 6. 1

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the device constituting the present invention, comprises a supporting stand A, involving upstanding spaced side sections Ill, preferably made from tubing, and both having an upwardly arched bridge crowning l |,'the leg portions l2 of the sections being formed with rest feet [3, adapted to contact the foundation or the cross, ties 14 of a railway track, the

inforcing rails or angles portions of the rails thereof being indicated at l5.

Carried by the crowning ll of the sections l0, midway thereof, are horizontally disposed spaced parallel substantially L-shaped guide rails or angles providing a beam 16 with underslung re- I'I, correspondingly shaped and inverted to the angles I 6, these angles I! being extended a major portion of the space between the sections in and are joined with the said rails IS in any desirable manner, while the rails l6 are detachably coupled to the sections H] inany suitable manner. The rails 56 extend a considerable distance beyond the vertical lay of the sections ID to the opposite sides of the stand A, as clearly appears in Figures 1 and 4 of the drawings.

superposed on the rails I6 medially thereof is a chain tackle and block, the latter having journalled therein a chain feed sprocket, not shown, andoperated by ratchet action by a hand actuated lever l8, and about this sprocket is trained the feed chain I9, which has detachably attached thereto grapple hooks 20, these being designed for engaging a bolster 2| at the center bearing 22 thereof for the raising and lowering of the said bolster in the placement or removal to and from a railway car truck, which involves the said bolster, the side frames 23, wheeled axles, one being denoted at 24, the cushioning springs 25, and adjuncts, not shown.

1 The block 26 for the chain tackle is detachably clamped in place by anchoring clamps 21 onto the V rails 16 and IT, as best seen in Figure 5 of the drawings, and this block can be shifted to selected positions by release of the said clamps 21, as should be obvious.

On the outer end portions of the rails it are mounted lifter carriages, each including traction rollers 28, movable on the rails l6 and suspending from their axle 29 a, supporting plate 29 carrying a hoisting chain block 30, having the hoister chain '3l thereof trained over a feed sprocket the bolster 2i assembled and disassembled with relation to such frames 23. Also thesprings25 can be properly located and removedwitheas'e' and dispatch in the wheeling of the "car trucki The sprocket for the chain 3111's ratchetop 1.;

erated by a hand actuated lever 35, and likewise,

the rollers are driven through ratchet action'from a hand lever 36, thus the hoisting chain-block 30 can be adjusted onthe rail It either inwardly r or outwardly thereof for bringin the side frames 23 in assembling relation to the-wheeled axles or disassembling relation thereto, as should be clear ly obvious.

The device constituting the present invention is set up-betwecn the track rails "Land the hoisting -of the bolster and sideframes respectively, can becarried forth with ease and dispatch, this alsocbeing true for the-lowering thereof. Also, the springs 25 can be placed and removed with ease and dispatch, and'withoutexcessive manual labor" What is claimed is r In a railway-.carwheel truck crane, the co bination. which comprises a pair- 0f horizontally disposed spacedanglebars providing a supporting beam, said angle bars mounted with the vertical legs ,thereof positioned back toback and with the horizontal legs thereof extended outwardly, vertically disposed support frames on which the said supported beam is secured, said support frames being-spaced apart a distance slightly less than the distance between the rails of a track on which the car is positionedandwith the ends of the angles of the beam extended between said frames, the intermediate portion of said beam reinforced by angle bars on the under surface of the angles thereof, carriages including chain hoist blocks positioned below said extending ends of the beam, a supporting plate for each carriage on which the said chain hoist blocks are carried extended-upwardly between-the vertical legs of the angle barsof the beam, supporting wheels positioned to travel on the horizontally disposed legs of the angle bars, a shaft extended through each of the supporting plates and on the ends of which the said wheels are mounted, a ratchet levercarried by each of the shafts for rotating the said wheelsto adjust the positions of the chain hoist blocks longitudinally on the ends of the'beam, saidch'ain hoist blocks having chains depending therefrom, a centrally disposed transversely positioned chain hoist block having a hook :suspended by a, chain therefrom with a ratchet operated hand lever for'manually actuating the chain and hook, ananchor clamp supporting said centrally disposed chain hoist block adjustably 'on the intermediate portion ofthe beam with the chain hoist block'extended at one side of the'beam.

CHARLES S. PERRY. HOWARD M. MCMILEAN. LUTHER C.'HERRING; JOHN FjBAUKNIGHT.

REFERENCES crrnp The following references 1 are of recordin the file of patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Kir'ton; Nev; 12; 194s 

